Box 1
Container
Contains 99 Results:
Letter signed U.S. Grant, Port Gibson, to Porter. “Our forces entered this place...this morning. Found all the rebels gone and the bridges burned. [When the stream is bridged], I will move immediately to Grand Gulf....I do not anticipate any resistance....I think tomorrow at 10 o’clock my advance may be looked for at the Gulf. Would it not be well to have most of the gunboats there at the same time.” (2 pages), 1863 May 2
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02142
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 May 2
Special Order No. 68, headquarters, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps, Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana. Details Private Lewis B. Jones, Company A, 30th Ohio Infantry, for special duty on the tug Thistle. (1 page), 1863 May 4
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02143
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 May 4
Letter signed U.S. Grant, rear of Vicksburg, to Porter. “My forces are now investing Vicksburg. Sherman’s forces run[?] from the Miss. River above the city two miles east. McPherson is to his left and McClernand to the left of McPherson. If you can run down and throw shell in just back of the lower part of the city it would aid us and demoralize and already badly beaten enemy....” (2 pages), 1863 May 19
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02144
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 May 19
Letter signed W.T. Sherman, headquarters, 15th Army Corps, Walnut Hills, to Porter. “My Right is on the Mississippi. We have possession of the Bluff down for a mile or more below the mouth of the Bayou. Can’t you send immediately a couple of gunboats down....” (1 page), 1863 May 19
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02145
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 May 19
Note signed U.S. Grant, Haines Bluff, to Porter. “A gunboat playing on the second water battery would materially help us. The first water battery is in our possession.” (1 page), 1863 May 20
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02146
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 May 20
Letter signed U.S. Grant, near Vicksburg, to Porter. “I expect to assault the city at 10 a.m. tomorrow. I would request...that you send up the gunboats below the city and shell the rebel entrenchments....If the mortars could all be sent down to near the point on the Louisiana shore and throw in shells during the night it would materially aid me....” (1 page), 1863 May 21
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02147
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 May 21
Letter signed U.S. Grant, Lake’s Landing, Mississippi, to Porter. “Will you have the kindness to order the Marine Brigade to Hains’ Bluff with instructions to disembark at that point and remain in occupation till I can relieve them by other troops....I have also to request...two 9 inch guns, implements and ammunition, complete, to be placed in battery in the rear of Vicksburg....” (2 pages), 1863 May 29
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02148
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 May 29
Letter signed Ezra Taylor, headquarters, 15th Army Corps, Office, Chief of Artillery, Walnut Hills, Mississippi, to Porter. Requests Porter “...to furnish to Lieut. Col. J. Condit Smith, Chief Quarter Master of this Corps, as many 30 pdr. Parrott Shells with fuzes and friction for same as you can conveniently spare....” (1 page), 1863 June 3
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02149
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 June 3
Letter signed John A. McClernand, headquarters, 13th Army Corps, near Vicksburg, to Porter. Extends his thanks to Porter for furnishing guns, ammunition, and hand grenades. (1 page), 1863 June 4
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02150
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 June 4
Note signed Ezra Taylor, headquarters, 15th Army Corps, Office Chief of Artillery, to Porter. Extends the thanks of General Sherman to Porter for furnishing the ammunition he requested. (1 page), 1863 June 5
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: D02151
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection consists primarily of correspondence to Admiral Porter from several high-ranking Union officers--including Generals Nathaniel P. Banks, Ulysses S. Grant, John A. McClernand, and William T. Sherman--regarding operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Collection contains accounts of the Yazoo River Expedition, the Arkansas Post Expedition, the Vicksburg Campaign, the siege of Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River Campaign. Also contains information on gunboats and the...
Dates:
1863 June 5